On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 06:00 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Right, rcu_read_lock() is part of the protection, but rcu_dereference()
> is the other part.
>
> All that aside, I can't claim that I understand what problem the various
> patches would solve. ;-)
Problem is that rcu_dereference(expr) might be optimized by the compiler
to cache the dereferenced data in certain circumstances.
Following patch shows the difference if you look at the generated code:
This patch fixes the problem, and its not really obvious why !
diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index 0bf5d39..6aa8088 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -416,11 +416,12 @@ static struct sock *udp4_lib_lookup2(struct net *net,
struct hlist_nulls_node *node;
int score, badness, matches = 0, reuseport = 0;
u32 hash = 0;
+ struct hlist_nulls_head *head = &hslot2->head;
begin:
result = NULL;
badness = 0;
- udp_portaddr_for_each_entry_rcu(sk, node, &hslot2->head) {
+ udp_portaddr_for_each_entry_rcu(sk, node, head) {
score = compute_score2(sk, net, saddr, sport,
daddr, hnum, dif);
if (score > badness) {
--
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